Back in 2016, I posted this message asking for information on a pair of Pittsburgh PCC cars: 1734 and 1773. Thanks to Bruce Wells and Steve Kuznetsov, I've now got an answer on that!
It turns out that car 1734 was moved back in 2015 to a building in Ellwood City, south of its old site in New Castle, where it is now the subject of an effort to restore the car. The goal is to operate the car, possibly at a trolley museum and it is being regauged using B3 trucks from Boston. The folks working on the car are also interested in help with this, so any volunteers in the area are free to inquire about helping with car 1734. Although it's still owned by the owner of Power Superconductor Applications, the company in New Castle that was host to a small collection of Pittsburgh PCC cars until a few years ago, it's no longer at PSA and its ownership has been updated.
As for car 1773, it turns out that the car was scrapped for parts, so it has been removed from the PNAERC list.
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To my knowledge Boston has never had any B-3 trucks, only B-2s and the B-10s under the East Boston PCC rapid transit cars. Many gauge conversions have used B-2 and /or B-3 trucks from CTA cars.
ReplyDeleteThe PRCO 1726 and up city cars were equipped with B-2b trucks. Toronto also had some and possibly Detroit. (would have to dig out the books) The B-2b truck has a rubber suspension between truck frame and bolster and an accordingly softer ride through specialwork. Other cars that had this arrangement were the Brilliners and some of the TARS 600 series cars like the one at Branford.
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